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From: catone@dsl.cis.upenn.edu (Tony Catone)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: QVT - a VT220 Emulator...
Message-ID: <3500@super.upenn.edu>
Date: 26 Feb 88 17:57:54 GMT
References: <20384@amdcad.AMD.COM> <641@omen.UUCP> <747@ddsw1.UUCP>
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Reply-To: catone@dsl.cis.upenn.edu.UUCP (Tony Catone)
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Keywords: VT220, Kermit, VT100, File Transfer

In article <747@ddsw1.UUCP> karl@ddsw1.UUCP (Karl Denninger) writes:
>In article <641@omen.UUCP> caf@omen.UUCP (Chuck Forsberg WA7KGX) writes:
>>In article <20384@amdcad.AMD.COM> indra@amdcad.AMD.COM (Indra K. Singhal) writes:
>>:Before I speak of problems... I think QVT does an excellent job of
>>:terminal emulation.  I no longer have the "noscroll after cursor is
>>.............
>>Indeed QVT has an excellent VT1xx emulation.  It does fairly well on
>.............
>Ha!
>
>It blew sky-high on our Vaxen here trying to run EDT and the like.... as
>well as some custom software that only likes real VT100s and VERY good
>clones.
>............
>All in all, back to SmartTerm for us....

Speaking of VT100 emulators, PC/Intercom by what was Mark of the Unicorn
and what is now (I believe) Final Word Corp. is one of the nicest I've
ever seen.  It consistently rates well in those reviews that include it
(advertising was never MoTU's strong point, so it isn't as well known as
it should be).  Great emulation (no double-height/double width or 132 col.
mode, though), runs all the grungy VT100 specific stuff that VMS can
throw at it just fine, also fine with Ultrix and BSD 4.2 vt100 drivers.
Kermit, XModem and ASCII transfers, along with their own format; very
configurable.  Only thing I really miss is a strong scripting language,
a la Cross-Talk or LC-Term.  Maybe next release.

					- Tony
					  catone@dsl.cis.upenn.edu
					  catone@wharton.upenn.edu